4D INVENTOR 2008 VIDEO TUTORIAL SERIES

Autodesk Inventor Video Training Course - Over 14 hours or video.

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Your instructor, Daniel T. Banach, is a recognized expert, author and educator in the Mechanical CAD field. He has fifteen years of experience consulting and implementing 3D CAD solutions to nationally known companies and is a highly sought after instructor and long-time speaker at Autodesk University. As an Autodesk Registered Author, Dan has written three books on Mechanical Desktop and has co-authored nine books on Autodesk Inventor.



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Inventor 2008 Series Lessons Cover These Topics:

Getting Started * Getting started with Autodesk Inventor * Creating a Single User Project * Changing Inventor's Application Options * Inventor's User Interface and Help Tools * Customizing short cuts and Undo and Redo tool * Inventor's viewing tools Sketch, Constraining and Dimensioning * Inventor's Sketch and Part Application Options, Units and Templates * Sketches and Default Planes, auto project origin, planes, new sketch * Inventor's 2D sketching tools * Selecting and Deleting Objects * Measuring sketches and parts * Adding 2D sketch constraints * 2D sketch constraints * Construction geometry * Snaps and dragging * Move, Copy, Rotate, Scale, Stretch tools * Applying sketch dimensions * Importing AutoCAD DWG file * Overview technique to open SAT, STEP, ProE, DXF, IGES files Creating and Editing Sketched Features * Introduction to features * Define active sketch * Extrude a sketch * Revolve a sketch * Editing a feature and a features sketch * 3D Grip option and the Move Face tool * Rename feature, feature color, delete feature, Project edges Creating and Editing Drawing Views * Starting and preparing a drawing * Creating base and projected views * Creating auxiliary, section and detail views * Creating broken views * Creating break out views * Creating and Editing Slice Views * Creating draft views * Editing drawing views * Retrieving model dimensions and placing drawing dimensions * Create baseline dimensions * Create ordinate dimensions * Working with Styles * Moving dimensions in a drawing view * Adding centerlines to drawings * Placing text and symbols in a drawing * Placing hole notes and chamfer notes * Creating a hole table * Create a table in a drawing Creating and Documenting Assemblies * Creating an assembly file and the assembly browser * Inserting Parts and creating parts in place * Create a subassembly and work with grounded parts. * Apply basic assembly constraints * Apply motion constraints * Enable, disable and control the visibility of components. * Edit components in an assembly and isolate constraint errors. * Create adaptive parts * Pattern assembly components * Analysis tools in an assembly * Drive assembly constraint to simulate motion * Create a presentation file * Create drawing views from an assembly and presentation file * Place balloons, create a parts list and edit it via a bill of material * Create a revision table

Creating Features * Create fillet features * Create chamfer features * Create hole features * Create thread features * Create shell features * Create face draft features * Create work axis and work planes features- Part I * Create work axis and work planes features- Part II * Create work points and grounded work points * Controlling the visibility of work features * Creating rectangular patterns * Creating circular patterns * Creating linear patterns Advanced Sketching and Constraining Techniques * Import points and create splines * Create and edit pattern sketches. * Share and copy a sketch * Use the 2D mirror tool and symmetric constraint * Slice the graphics in a part and assembly. * Change the display of dimensions and create a relationship between dimensions. * Parameters and spreadsheets Advanced Part Modeling Techniques * Use open profiles to create a feature * Create ribs and webs * Emboss text and sketches * Sweep features * 3D sketches * Coil feature * Loft features * Create and edit surfaces * Split a face and part * Copy and paste features * Mirror features on a part * Suppress, Conditionally Suppress, and reorder features and feature rollback * Create a derived part and assembly * Create AutoLimits Design Automation Techniques * Create iMates * Create, use and document iParts * Create, use and document iAssemblies * Create iFeatures and reuse them on other parts * Design views * Create level of detail in an assembly and use when creating drawing views * Flexible assemblies, positional representations and overlay drawing views. * Use the contact solver * Mirror components in an assembly * Copy components in an assembly * Create assembly features * Content Center * Design Accelerator * Frame Generator Sheet Metal Design * Using sheet metal styles * Face tool * Contour Flange tool * Flange tool * HEM tool * Fold tool * Bend tool * Cut tool * Corner Seam tool * Corner Round and Chamfer tool * Punch Tool * Creating flat pattern * Common Sheet Metal and Feature Tools * Document sheet metal designs Weldments * Creating a new weldment * Weld preparations * Create fillet and Groove (Gap) welds * Create machining operations * Document weldments